On Thursday, the Palestinian resistance factions released the Israeli soldier, Agam Berger, near the rubble of Jabalia camp. An hour later, they released Gadi Moses and Arbel Yehud from Khan Yunis. They also released five Thai citizens without any compensation, and confirmed that the Thais were hosted by the Palestinians in the Gaza Strip.

The fighters of the "Al-Quds Brigades" and the "Al-Qassam Brigades" were deployed in the prisoner handover area in Khan Yunis, which is in front of the house of the former head of the Hamas movement, the martyr Yahya Sinwar.

The General Security Service (Shabak) warned the families of Palestinian prisoners scheduled to be released today against celebrating, amid a campaign of arrests.

On the 12th day of the ceasefire agreement in Gaza, the third batch of the prisoner exchange deal was implemented, according to which the Palestinian resistance factions will release three Israeli prisoners and five Thai workers, in exchange for Israel releasing 110 Palestinian prisoners. At the same time, the flow of thousands of displaced Palestinians continues to return to the central and northern Gaza Strip via Rashid Street.

The spokesman for the Al-Qassam Brigades, the military wing of Hamas, Abu Obeida, announced the release of the Israeli prisoners Arbel Yehud (29 years old), Agam Berger (20 years old), and Gadi Moshe Moses (80 years old), as part of the “Flood of the Free” deal.

In turn, Palestinian institutions concerned with prisoners' affairs said that the third batch of the first phase of the exchange deal includes 110 Palestinian prisoners, including 32 prisoners sentenced to life imprisonment, 48 prisoners with high sentences, in addition to 30 cub prisoners.

This exceptional batch was approved under Israel's pretext of not releasing the Israeli prisoner Yehud in the previous batch, in an attempt to obstruct the return of displaced Palestinians to the northern Gaza Strip.

With the implementation of the third batch of the exchange deal, 82 Israelis will remain in captivity with the resistance factions in the Gaza Strip, while the concerned parties continue negotiations to complete the implementation of the agreement in its three stages.

Another exchange is scheduled to take place on the specified date, next Saturday, under the ceasefire agreement reached by Qatari-Egyptian-American mediation to end the Israeli war on the Gaza Strip, which has been ongoing since October 7, 2023.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's office said three living men held by Hamas were due to be released in a fourth round of exchange scheduled for Saturday. Families will be notified of the names of those to be released on Friday.